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CHAPTER I. 

OF THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF THE COLLEGE. 

Rule 1. The Students will be required, during their 
residence at the College, to bring their conduct in all 
particulars to accord with the following statement of the 
origin and purpose of the Institution. 

" Haverford School was establislied for the special purpose of 
guarding the morals and religious opinions of young men while 
pursuing a full collegiate coui'se. 

" Its promoters had seen with deep I'egret the demoralizing in- 
fluences of College life : they knew the importance of liberal and 
systematic study, but they felt that even such advantages were too 
dearly purchased by exposure to temptations which in many cases had 
resulted in the ruin of young men, and from which the discipline of 
no college in this country was found a sufficient safeguard. 

"The religious principles of the Society of Friends, and that strict 
family discipline to which its younger members are subjected, were^ in 
their judgment, of primary importance. Wanting these, they beheved 
that no literary institution, however desirable its opportunities for in- 
tellectual culture, could be other than a dangerous residence for their 
sons. 

" To supply this great need Haverford School was founded. It 
combined the educational means and the higher training of the college, 
with that family discipline to which our young men were supposed to 
be accustomed at home ; and which, by keeping them constantly under 
the watchful eye of officers and teachers^ v/ould, it was hoped, in a great 
measure supply the place of parental oversight. When the style of 
the Institution was changed, and, for reasons deemed adequate, the 
title of College was assumed, no change whatever was designed in the 
moral government. It was for the same class of students that its doors 
were opened ; it was for precisely the same ends; and it was through 
the same combination of College instruction and strict family discip- 
line that these ends were to be obtained." 



CHAPTER IT. 

OF THE GOVERNMENT 



Rule 1 . The President, Superintendent, Professors, and 
Tutors, shall constitute the College Faculty, and shall 
have the care and government of the Students. They 
shall meet regularly once a week, at such times as they 
shall themselves appoint, and keep regular minutes of 
their proceedings, which minutes shall be laid before the 
Visiting Committee when met at the College. 

Rule 2. Should any student be guilty of such flagrant 
violation of order, or should his general deportment be 
so unsatisfactory as in the judgment of the Faculty to 
require that he be sent home, whether as suspended or 
dismissed, the facts of the case are to be communicated 
as early as practicable to the Committee on Instruction, 
and should they unite with the Faculty, such penalty 
shall be imposed. 

Rule 3. If any student shall, while under the care of 
any of the Instructors, by disrespectful language or 
behaviour, or in any other way violate the order of 
the College, it shall be competent for such Instructor, 
should other means fail, and he deem it needful, to sus- 
pend him from the studies of his department — reporting 
the case as early as practicable to the Superintendent, 
whose duty it shall be to use all proper means to impress 
the offender with a sense of his misconduct, and to re- 
quire him to make satisfaction to his Instructor before 
he can be permitted to resume his studies : and on failure 
of these remedies, the Superintendent may suspend him 
from all his studies, and may interdict intercourse with 
his fellow- students, and bring the subject before the 
Faculty, who may proceed as under Rule 2d. 



Rule 4. No student shall leave, or be withdrawn from, 
the College, on the plea of indisposition, or for other 
cause, without the consent of the Superintendent, which 
consent shall be entered upon his Journal, together with 
the reasons for which it was given : and the length of 
time during which such student shall have been absent, 
shall also be recorded, and the Journal laid before the 
Visiting Committees at their monthly visits. 

Rule 5. A systematic Course of Study having been 
carefully arranged and prescribed, all students admitted 
to the College will be expected to pursue the full Course, 
during the period of their connexion with the Institution; 
and no student shall be allowed to omit or discontinue 
any study, or to pursue a partial or irregular course, 
without a unanimous vote of the Faculty ; which con- 
clusion shall be reported to the Committee on Instruction 
with the reasons therefor. 

Rule 6. Censures and penalties imposed by the Faculty, 
shall be communicated by the President to the Students 
therein concerned, and in important cases, to their 
parents or guardians. 

CHAPTER III. 

OF ADMISSIONS AND MATRICULATIONS. 

Rule 1. Candidates for admission, accepted by the 
Board of Managers, shall be examined by the Faculty, 
and placed in such classes as they may be found pre- 
pared to join. 

Rule 2. Every person admitted shall, before entering 
upon his studies, receive a printed copy of the Rules 
relating to the conduct of the students, and shall care- 
fully read the same ; after which he shall sign the fol- 
lowing declaration, viz : " I hereby declare that, having 
been admitted into Haverford College, it is my deter- 
mined purpose to obey all its laws." 



Rule 3. Every person admitted as a student, shall be 
considered as on probation for the first Term of his con- 
nexion with the Institution. If, during the Term of his 
probation, he shall fail to exhibit a satisfactory degree 
of diligence in study and disposition to good order — or 
if, upon any other ground, it be deemed by the Faculty 
not advisable that he should become a member of the 
College, the case shall be submitted to the Committee on 
Instruction, and if they concur, his connexion with the 
Institution shall cease. The time of probation may be 
prolonged, however, at the discretion of the Faculty, to 
a period not exceeding one year. 

Ride 4. Every person who shall have passed his pro- 
bation in a satisfactory manner, shall receive a Certificate 
of Matriculation as a member of the College in full 
standing. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF EXAMINATIONS. 

Rule 1. Near the close of each Summer Term, there 
shall be a private Examination of the Sophomore and 
of the Senior Classes: of the former, upon the studies 
of the first two years of the Course, preparatory to ad- 
vancement to the Junior Class : and of the latter, upon 
those of the last two 3^ears, for the Degree of Bachelor 
of Arts. The members of the Class under Examination, 
shall be seated, each day, in a room by themselves, under 
the care of an officer of the College, and shall he furnish- 
ed with a set of Questions upon some book in the Course, 
to be answered in writing, without consulting any person 
or book. The Questions shall be on topics and passages 
selected throughout the Text books, and calculated to 
test as accurately as possible the student's knowledge of 
the subject. No student can be advanced to the Junior 
Class, or be graduated and receive the Diploma of a 



Bachelor of Arts, without having passed the private 
Examination in a satisfactory manner. 

CHAPTER V . 

OF DEGREES, COMMENCEMENTS, ETC. 

Rule 1. Students who have completed the full Course, 
in a satisfactory manner, and passed the written Exam- 
inations on all the Studies with success, and who shall 
perform an Original Exercise at Commencement, or 
present a Thesis satisfactory to the Faculty, will, if they 
shall have obtained the requisite averages for conduct, 
and if their moral character be unexceptionable, receive 
the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the Diploma of the 
College. 

Rule 2. Graduates of three years standing, having 
received the Degree of Bachelor of Arts or the Diploma 
of Haverford School, may take the Degree of Master of 
Arts, on submitting to the Committee on Instruction 
satisfactory evidence of continued good moral character, 
and presenting a carefully written Thesis on some literary 
or scientific subject, which shall receive the approbation 
of the Faculty. 

Rule 3. Degrees shall be conferred at the Annual 
Commencement, on the second Fourth-day of the Seventh 
month. The Literary Exercises at the Commencement, 
shall consist of Original Orations and Dissertations by 
the members of the Graduating Class, in the Greek, 
Latin, or English languages, to be assigned in such 
manner as the Faculty shall see fit. 

Rule 4. At the close of the first Term of the Junior 
year, there shall l^e puj^lic Exercises by the members of 
the Junior Class ] the performances to consist of Original 
Orations, Dissertations, or Versions in the Greek, Latin, 
or English languages, assigned by the Faculty. 



CHAPTER V I. 

or TERMS AND VACATIONS. 

Rule 1 . The College Commencement shall take place 
on the second Fourth-clay in the Seventh month, and the 
Winter Term begin nine weeks thereafter, and continue 
twenty weeks. The Summer Term shall begin three 
weeks from the end of the Winter Term, and close on 
Commencement day. 

Rule 2. There shall be two Vacations, one of three 
weeks succeeding the Winter Term, and one of nine 
weeks following the Summer Term. 

C H A P T E R VII. 

OF THE CONDUCT OF THE STUDENTS. 

Rule 1. All the Students must be present in time for 
the Morning recitations on the days appointed for the 
opening of the Terms, unless prevented by illness, 
attested by the certificate of a physician, or the death of 
a near relative. New students must present themselves 
on the morning of the preceding day, for the purpose of 
being examined and classified. 

R^lle 2. The students will be expected at all times to 
keep within the enclosures around the College building, 
except when they may have express liberty from the 
Superintendent to pass beyond them. 

Rule 3. When a student obtains liberty to extend his 
walk beyond the prescribed limits, it is to be distinctly 
understood, that he is not to enter or even to go to any 
house whatever, unless he shall have, at the same time, 
obtained permission from the Superi¥itendent for that 
purpose. 

Rule 4. Ample space being appropriated in other 
parts of the building for the use of the students, they 
are required to avoid going into the kitchen, and such 



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other parts as would be attended with iuconvenieiice to 
those engaged in the domestic concerns of the family. 

Rule 5. In the interval of hours of study, after the 
close of the morning recitations, the students will have 
the liberty of free access to their respective chambers, 
provided that they shall preserve them in a decent state, 
— that no student shall pass into any other chamber 
than his own, — and that at all times, whether in the 
day or night, when the students are in their chambers 
or the adjacent passage, they shall avoid all unnecessarj' 
conversation with each other, and conduct themselves iu 
a quiet and orderly manner. 

Rule 6. Smoking and Chetvlng Tobacco, are to be alto- 
gether avoided by the students. 

Rule 7. No Books or Periodicals shall be brought to 
the College or retained by any student, unless with the 
approval of the Faculty. 

Rule 8. The students are to dress consistently with 
the simplicity of our Religious profession, and in other 
respects to endeavour to conduct themselves in conform- 
ity with the Christian principles and testimonies of the 
Society of Friends. 

Rule 9. The students will be required to obey all the 
Regulations, which the Faculty may from time to time 
deem it necessary to establish for the good of the Insti- 
tution ; to be punctual and regular in their attendance 
at all the prescribed exercises and collections ; to be 
affable and courteous in their intercourse with eacli 
other, and with all those with whom they have con- 
nexion ; to conform ~ in all their deportment to strict 
decorum; to avoid cutting their names, or otherwise 
defacing or wasting either their ow^n property or that 
of each other, or of the Institution ; and in general, 
to abstain from any act, which, in their judgment, w^ould 



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not be sanctioned by those under whose care the}^ are 
placed. 

Rule 10. All losses and injuries of the property of the 
College occasioned by students, shall be charged to the 
offenders; and should it, after due notice to all the 
students, be found impossible to discover these, the cost 
shall be divided among the students and charged in 
their bills. 

While such Rules as are calculated to promote the best interests of 
the Students will be made and enforced, the Managers and Faculty 
earnestly desire that the Students may be influenced to good order and 
diligence in study, by the highest motives; by moral and religious 
principle, a sense of duty, a manly spirit of obedience, and the gener- 
ous feelings which should characterize young men engaged in honor- 
able pursuits. 

C H A P T E R VIII. 

OF ADMISSIONS ON THE FUND. 

Eule 1. The Committee on Instruction shall be charged 
with Admissions on the Fund. 

Rule 2. All the students so admitted, shall be members 
of the Religious Society of Friends, whose example shall 
Ije useful in promoting the discipline of the Institution; 
and they shall be persons whose circumstances are such 
as to require assistance in procuring a liberal education. 

Rule 3, A preference shall always be given to students 
who intend to become Teachers. 

Rule 4. The admissions shall be for one year only, 
but may be extended to a longer period, on the recom- 
mendation of the Faculty, and the decision of the Com- 
mittee on Instruction. 

Rule 5. All necessary charges, except that for Board 
and Tuition, must be paid by the student at or before 
the end of each Term, and for such payment, he must 
give sufficient security on his admission. 



■IBRARY OF CONGRESS 

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